It was predictable because in fact any neutral observer who knows anything about the way the big banks on Wall Street work has been saying it for years. But it was remarkable because Sachs is a tried and true member of the American establishment, a widely acclaimed Ivy League professor and <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author, and not exactly a raving populist in his economic or political views.

I've always looked at my role in politics as that of "historian". In fact, the subtitle of my blog "Mugsy's&nbsp;Rap&nbsp;Sheet" is "Recording History for Those Who Seek to Rewrite it." Republicans have more than a bad habit of rewriting and

Oddly enough, there's been no mention this morning on Fox News (at least not that I have caught) on today's New York Times story about the Bush administration's manifest failure to heed a litany of warnings prior to the 9/11 terror attacks in